THE AR. T GALLER.IE5 M Dstly Sculpture _ \\ I T is almost exactly eight years since . the British abstract ) " j f .- sculptor Henry Moore had his first- t ß ,(. and, till the one now l\.... .. i\ on at the Buchholz, f ' his last-gallery ex- , , hibition in New York, and over four years SInce his big retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. (He has yet to be given a really full-scale showing in his native country, but one is scheduled for the Tate Gal- lery, in London, to run during the coming Festival of Britain.) Still, in spite of this fairly meagre record of public appearances, he is established, at the age of fifty-two, not only as one of the five or six most important living modern sculptors but as a popular sym- bol of the modernist movement, as IS best evidenced by the fact that when a comic artist or a cartoonist wants to poke fun at modernist sculptures, he generally uses one of Moore's perforated figures for his example. There are few such pieces in the current collection (Moore has said that he employs the device of perforating his work to give lightness and a sense of relationship with surrounding space to it) , and, although the show covers the period from 1931 to the present, even fewer of those wholly abstract strung- wire-and-metal constructIons that have caused almost as much comment. At the moment, I can recall just one of the latter, a little, rather totemic con- trivance called "Young Bride," and of the others only three, of which his "Reclining Figure" (No.6) seems the most successful. Yet, even though it is relatively small, the exhibition offers a considerably more varied view of his production than, I think, either of the ones that have gone before. To be sure, there is a series of his familiar "Family Groups," those little two- or three-figured arrangements that, if "classic" in style, are done in the warmer, gentler, innocently spirited Etruscan manner rather than in the more traditional Greek or Roman, and these-particularly "Family Group" (No. 13), in which the mother is hand- ing the infant to the father, and the slightly more formal "Study for Batter- sea Park Figures"-are as graceful and , ,-- 1 \ UprCHlIJ Ioxaty; tiff . <1prtll? 57 <. V , 'W- .... ;t : ::: . . ';::::::' :: *-. ^ ::Jf' " t(.. . .,iM":.... {J': >.:\ ":,. :%l <" ..:." *,' .::: : : ....moo ". . . . < . , . ":. PHOTOGRAPH BY FABIAN BACHRACH DISTINGUISHED IMPORTED V\ 7 0RSTED SHARKSKINS . . . tailored by hand in our own workrooms to that final degree of excellence which has earned us the plaudits of discriminating men everywhere. In an extensive choice of interesting new weaves. $115 Other Suits $88 to $140 ,WITT B ROT HER S _ I dìtohm 0/ UU'e Icfcfcf CREATORS OF WORLD - FAMOUS RAJURA CASHMERE OUTERCOATS 550 FIFTH AVENUE, bet. 45th and 46th Sts.) New York Other Stores 'In New York and Brooklyn